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	 <h3 style="font-size: 28pt; color: #626C9B; font-weight: bold; position: relative; top: -1em; letter-spacing: .10em; width: 100%; border-bottom: double 3px #626C9B; ">Theft</h3>
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	 <h3 style="font-size: 20pt; color: #626C9B; font-weight: bold; position: relative; top: -1em; letter-spacing: .10em; width: 100%; border-bottom: double 3px #626C9B; ">1. OE Introduction</h3>
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	 <b><a href="CORP190_368.html#S31.06.03" Title="Goes to the Corpus 190 manuscript">S31.06.03</a></a></b> They are murder and theft and false oaths and avarice and
	 fornication and gluttony and calumny and false witness. </p>
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	 <h3 style="font-size: 20pt; color: #626C9B; font-weight: bold; position: relative; top: -1em; letter-spacing: .10em; width: 100%; border-bottom: double 3px #626C9B; ">2. Scriftboc</h3>
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	 <b><a href="JUNIUS_88b.html#X04.02.01" Title="Goes to the JUNIUS manuscript">X04.02.01</a></b> If he [a small boy] steals or eats carrion and knows it, he
	 is to fast seven days.  If he is twenty years old and does any such thing he 
	 is to fast for twenty nights.</p>
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	 <b><a href="JUNIUS_100a.html#X26.06.01" Title="Goes to the JUNIUS manuscript">X26.06.01</a></b> If someone through a great theft steal a four-footed
	 animal, a horse or a cow, or break into a house, he is to fast one year and repay that which he has
	 stolen, or fast two years.  If he steals more goods, he is to fast four years or as his confessor
	 judges.</p>
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	 <b><a href="JUNIUS_100a.html#X26.06.02" Title="Goes to the JUNIUS manuscript">X26.06.02</a></b> If he is a priest and commit such theft, he is to fast five years
	 or as the bishop commands for him.</p>
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	 <h3 style="font-size: 20pt; color: #626C9B; font-weight: bold; position: relative; top: -1em; letter-spacing: .10em; width: 100%; border-bottom: double 3px #626C9B; ">3. Canons of Theodore</h3>
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	 <b><a href="BX8558_149a.html#B68.01.01" Title="Goes to the Brussles manuscript">B68.01.01</a></b> Whoever steals anything from God's church must repay it fourfold. </p>
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	 <b><a href="BX8558_150b.html#B76.01.01" Title="Goes to the Brussles manuscript">B76.01.01</a></b> If a layman carry off a monk from a monastery by stealth, he must 
	 enter a monastery and serve God or submit himself to human servitude.</p>
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	 <b><a href="BX8558_150b.html#B76.01.02" Title="Goes to the Brussles manuscript">B76.01.02</a></b> Whoever has often committed theft must do penance for
	 7 years as his confessor prescribes and whoever has committed theft and he turns to repentance,
	 he must always settle with those whom he offended and restore it (i.e., what he took); then he
	 lessens the fasting period. If he will not or cannot do that, he must fast the appointed
	 time.</p>
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	 <b><a href="BX8558_150b.html#B76.01.04" Title="Goes to the Brussles manuscript">B76.01.04</a></b> If he steals a consecrated thing, he must fast for 3 years
	 without meat. </p>
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	 <h3 style="font-size: 20pt; color: #626C9B; font-weight: bold; position: relative; top: -1em; letter-spacing: .10em; width: 100%; border-bottom: double 3px #626C9B; ">4.  OE Penitential</h3>
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	 <b><a href="LAUD482_3a.html#Y41.08.02" Title="Goes to the Laud Misc. manuscript">Y41.08.02</a></b> These are the vanities of this world:  first is pride, and
	 hatred, and envy, and anger, and theft, and drunkenness, and luxury, and fornication, and
	 witchcraft, and avarice, and robbery, and sorcery, and manslaughter, and many other similar
	 things.</p>  
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	 <b><a href="LAUD482_5a.html#Y42.03.00" Title="Goes to the Laud Misc. manuscript">Y42.03.00</a></b> Concerning the man who slays his servants for theft without the knowledge of his assembly of 100 </p>
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	 <b><a href="LAUD482_6a.html#Y42.03.01" Title="Goes to the Laud Misc. manuscript">Y42.03.01</a></b> If any man kills his servant, and he has no testimony that he (the servant) were guilty except that he killed him because of his [the servant's] rage and his [the servant's] negligence, he is to fast 2 years.</p>
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	 <b><a href="LAUD482_5b.html#Y42.25.00" Title="Goes to the Laud Misc. manuscript">Y42.25.00</a></b> Concerning theft</p>
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	 <b><a href="LAUD482_10a.html#Y41.25.01" Title="Goes to the Laud Misc. manuscript">Y42.25.01</a></b> If any man steals things of value, if he is a layman, he
	 is to fast 5 years; if a subdeacon, 6 years; if a deacon, 7 years; if a masspriest, 10 years; if a
	 bishop, 12 years.</p>
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	 <b><a href="LAUD482_10a.html#Y42.25.02" Title="Goes to the Laud Misc. manuscript">Y42.25.02</a></b> If anyone steal a thing of middling value, he is to return
	 the stolen objects to him who owns it and fast 1 year on bread and water; and if he does not
	 have the stolen thing to return, he is to fast 3 years on bread and water.</p>
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	 <b><a href="LAUD482_16b.html#Y44.19.01" Title="Goes to the Laud Misc.  manuscript">Y44.19.01</a></b> If anyone break into God's church for theft, he is to return
	 what is stolen and fast 7 years as it is written above concerning manslaughter.</p>
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	 <b><a href="LAUD482_16b.html#Y44.20.01" Title="Goes to the Laud Misc.  manuscript">Y44.20.01</a></b> If any man steals food or clothes and hunger or need
	 drives him to it, he is to fast 3 weeks on bread and water if he is able to return what is stolen. 
	 And one should not compel him to fast but should forgive him for God's love. </p>
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